Year: 2011

Last month we reached out to Microsoft Advertising adCenter users to inform that we are deprecating keyword level negative keywords. Starting today, the campaign and ad group level negative keywords will continue to impact delivery in adCenter and any existing keyword level negative keywords will be ignored. What do these changes mean for adCenter Web…

Some adCenter API users may experience up to a 2-6 hour delay with API performance reports beginning Wednesday November 16, 2011 at 8:00 PM PDT through 2:00 AM PDT Thursday November 17th. Reports are expected to be running normally by November 17, 2011 2:00 AM PDT.

During the next week we will be announcing upgrades and improvements to the adCenter API. Below you’ll find a quick sneak peek at what is coming so you are able to keep track of the announcements and leverage the new functionality as you plan your holiday campaigns. Much of our focus this year has been…

Some adCenter API users may experience up to a 8-12 hour delay with API performance reports beginning Tuesday November 01, 2011 at 9:00 PM PDT through 9:00 AM PDT Wednesday November 2nd. Reports are expected to be running normally by November 2, 2011 9:00 AM PDT. If you have any questions or concerns, visit the API forum….

On Saturday, October 15, 2011, adCenter will be unavailable from approximately 10:00 AM PDT to 10:00 PM PDT for routine system maintenance. Though you will be unable to access adCenter during this time, please note that campaigns will continue to run normally and your ads will continue to serve. We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you missed the post on the adCenter Blog last week, this is just a quick heads up that the API, the adCenter UI and the Desktop will be unavailable from approximately 11:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Pacific Time for routine system maintenance. Though you will be unable to access adCenter during this time, please…

In an effort to make it easier for you to identify and act upon opportunities to improve your campaign performance, we’re excited to announce the new Optimizer Service, now available via the adCenter API. With this new feature, you can use operations to identify campaigns that have paused or will soon pause because of budget…

As you’ve seen in previous posts here on the API Blog, Microsoft Advertising adCenter API Version 6 will sunset as of today, September 30th. After today, Microsoft will end support of Version 6 in the Sandbox and Production environments. If you are still using adCenter API Version 6, your ads and campaigns will continue to…

If this post looks familiar, it’s because you saw it about a month ago when we first made the announcement that adCenter API Version 6 will no longer be supported in the Sandbox or Production environments as of September 30th, 2011. If you are still running adCenter API Version 6, we recommend that you begin upgrading…

FINAL UPDATE 9:30PM PDT: All adCenter reporting now is up-to-date as of 3:50 PM PDT, this concludes the updates to this thread as all open issues have now been resolved. ——————- Yesterday’s API outage has been resolved, both the UI and API are currently running. Given a moderate delay in report data during the outage,…